DHV:
921
Tourin ID:
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Paris
Louis
Guersan
Date:
1754
Label Text:
Louis Guersan, Paris, 1754 [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
J
Hamamatsu City
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Museum of Musical Instruments
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
C-0006R
Head:
Putto
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Dorothy & Robert Rosenbaum, Scarsdale, NY, no. 286
Measurements:
Body Length:
32.6
String Length:
30.5
Rib Depth:
5.9
Upper Width:
15.9
Middle Width:
11
Bottom Width:
19.5
Information
Source:
Museum to TGM, 6/09; Pollens 1980, p. 23
Literature:
Pollens 1980, p. 23
Photographs:
Uemura 2011 (front [color]); Hamamatsu 1995, p. 16 (side 1/2, from above); Pollens 1980, p. 23 (front); [unpublished, from museum 8/09: FB+S (color); in Heale Archive: FB+S]
Recordings:
Uemura 2011 (English Consort Music: Hamamatsu Museum)
Auctions:
Comments:
Striped back and ribs (maple and yew), double purfling. 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. Label text (from Pollens 1980) unusual if accurate; he also says La Fille head; total length 62.7, width 20.1. Hamamatsu 1995: total length 62.5; date 1751. Rosenbaum Estate inventory (seen at Boston MFA): date 1751.